QUIZES Flashcards
Which of the following is NOT a way for planners to collaborate with communities affected by environmental injustice
Publishing academic articles on environmental injustice
publishing academic articles does not, on its own, improve the relationship between planners and the communities they serve
what is the first step you should take to lower accessibility barriers at a meeting with elderly/disabled people?
circulate a survey before the meeting asking residents to describe their ideal access accommodations
planners should not assume the accessibility needs of participants.
Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs)
Agreements may not be enforceable if the coalitions who signed them dissolve after signing.
Agreements must be related to one specific development project.
Agreements can be private contracts or contracts enforced by local governments
Agreements can promise local hiring quotas.
charette
an intense, short-term workshop that strives to design a land use planning project or envision a solution to a planning problem. Charrettes are best for uniting multiple stakeholders in close collaboration on a distinct project that people will interact with often, such as a public park or transportation station or system.
Which of the following individuals is an ideal first contact to solicit resident input into community planning?
a neighborhood improvement committee leader (Not a journalist)
What should you do if you are concerned about whether a social media post is a public record according to the Sunshine Laws?
Unclear; consult state and local regulations to determine if social media posts are considered public record.
What is the key component of equity?
Being fair and impartial
Equity is all about improving the distribution of resources, funding, or access in a fair or impartial way and understanding how discrimination has created these inequities.
Gentrification occurs when:
The negative impacts of development are not priced in their entirety
Development occurs in areas inhabited by marginalized groups and approached without an equity lens
potential benefit of form-based codes:
Fostering or protecting a pedestrian-oriented development pattern
Upholding a cohesive design vision
Fostering social equity within cities
(NOT Separating incompatible land uses)
John Snow’s famous map of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak could be interpreted as all of the following except:
Cartogram
LIHTC
The maximum rent that can be charged in a unit funded by LIHTCs is a percentage of an area’s median income.
Unit affordability must be maintained for at least a fifteen-year compliance period.
The majority (90 percent) of affordable housing in the United States was funded by LIHTCs.
LIHTCs provide a dollar-for-dollar tax reduction in a taxpayer’s federal income tax. A tax deduction only provides a reduction in taxable income.
Oversampling
Overrepresenting certain historically underrepresented populations in data collection in the hopes of achieving representative results.
The benefits of a participatory approach include:
Promoting buy-in to the evaluation
Empowering participants as it facilitates building evaluation capacity within the community
Creating space to obtain input from all participants
(Collecting key data around community engagement isn’t a benefit of the approach ITSELF)
Primacy Effect
Primacy effect describes the tendency to choose earlier answers in a list of elaborated options.
In a closed-ended survey question, respondents are more likely to choose earlier options
What best to improves the environmental conditions of underserved communities?
Prioritizing more compact, mixed-use development
fosters more affordable housing and connections with public transportation that help address the spatial distribution of noxious land uses and improve the environmental conditions of poor communities.
